Sectional guide for cabinet drawers



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Sept. 15, 1942. N. SULENTIC SECTIONAL GUIDE FOR CABINET DRAWERS FiledJuly 22, 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 95. ER w Wm EE H Patented Sept. 15, 1942SECTIONAL GUIDE FOR CABINET DRAWERS Nicholas Sulentic, WaterlooTownship, Blackhawk County, Iowa Application July 22, 1940, Serial No.346,688

1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in sec tional guides for cabinetdrawers, and an object of my improvements is to furnish extensionseparable members for insertion between the end walls of a drawer andthe inner side walls of a cabinet or the like, secured separably toboth, and. lockably connected slidably together, and tool means forunlocking the members to permit removal of the drawer.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafterdescribed, claimed and illustrated in the appended drawings, it beingunderstood that my invention covers variations in the respective parts.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a cabinet or chest with a swingable top,and a plurality of slide drawers slidably seated therein for extensiontherefrom, and laterally mounted therein by means of connectedextensible members, separably. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one ofthe drawers, showing its extension members as mounted on one end thereofas also on a part of a side wall of the cabinet, the extension membersnot being shown on the opposite side wall. Figs. 3 and 4 are like sidebars showing their outer faces. Fig. 5 is an intermediate bar, showingone side face thereof. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the movablyconnected assemblage of said side and intermediate bars, showing a toolas being used in effecting a separation of the bars. Fig. 6a is afragmentary plan view, partly in section, of the side and intermediatebars in interengagement with eachother, the drawer partly withdrawn.Fig. 6b is a fragmentary perspective View of the side and intermediatebars in interengagement with each other, the drawer completely housed.Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section taken through the intermediate bar andapposed side bars. Fig. 8 is an end elevation of the intermediate bar.Fig. 9 is an end elevation of one of the side bars. Fig. 10 is alongitudinal section of the intermediate bar, with a medial portionbroken away. Fig. 11 is a medial longitudinal section of an end part ofa side bar, including its inturned end lug and adjacent aperture.

In Fig. 1 is shown an open front cabinet with a hinged top I8 and havingan open front between end walls and the top I8 may be swung erect andheld erect by the hinged brace I9. superposed drawers 2!] and 2| aremounted in the cabinet and protrusible forwardly therefrom on fixed andslidable sectional supports as at I, I6 and 5 positioned between theends of the drawers and the side walls I1 of the cabinet and secured toboth, by electric welding of the steel side bars I and 5 to and betweensteel side walls respectively of the cabinet at IT and of the drawer ordrawers 2|, or, if the said walls are of wood, other fastening means maybe employed.

As shown in Fig. 2, side bars I and 5, spaced apart, are fastened on theend walls, with an intermediate bar I6 between and slidably supported onthe side bars. The drawers may have any desired handles 20a on theirfront Walls. In Fig. 1, while the upper drawer 2i] has on each end asingle set of side bars with an intermediate bar I6, the lower drawerhas on each outer end wall a superposed pair of the like elements forsupporting a heavier loading. The side bars I and 5, being spaced apart,are reversed in relative positions, as shown in the Fig. 6b, an endelevation, with their upper and lower inturned edge parts rimmed toproduce inward- 1y opening longitudinal channels. The intermediate baris preferably made of like but reversed bars I2, I5 and 8, and I3, I6and 9 whose 1ongitudinal edge parts I3 and 9, and I2 and 8 are offsetrespectively from each other transversely as shown in Fig. 8 withapposed and welded medial parts [5 and I6. As shown in Figs. '7, 8 and10, bar springs I0 and I4 are mounted on opposite sides of theintermediate bar in the side depressions I6 and I 5 respectively andspaced apart at their inner free ends longitudinally and oppositely withtheir outer end parts united by welding to the opposite sides of the barand relatively offset. Fig. 6b shows the side bars and intermediate baras telescoped together, with the forked walls I3 and 9 of theintermediate bar I6 rideable loosely in the opposed channeled partsabove and below the side bars I and 5.

In Figs. 6, 6b, 9 and 11 are shown at one end of each side bar I and 5relatively opposite, inturned lugs 3 and 6 projecting nearly to the wallparts I6 and I5, and adjacent to each lug longitudinally is a medialaperture or hole 4 and 1 in alinement medially with the lugs 3 and 6. Itwill be seen, referring to Figs. 6 and 7, that when a drawer such as 20or 2| is fully extended together with the extensions of the side barsalong the intermediate bar, the free end of each spring is opposite theholes I and 4. In Figs. 1 and 2, an angle-bar 22 may be mounted in eachrear inner corner of the drawer 20, while its side arm as also theabutting part of the side wall of the drawer are apertured in alinementat 23. When the arm sections I and 5 are extended along the intermediatebar outwardly (Fig. 6) the hole 4 in the bar I will be in alinement withthe hole 23 traversing the angle-bar 22 and the abutting side wall ofthe drawer. The operator may then push a tool 24 through said alinedapertures to compress the adjacent spring end toward or against theabutting wall of the intermediate bar, thus releasing it from the lugand as the intermediate bar may be moved in one direction longitudinallythe tool is withdrawn at the moment when the abutting end of the springIll passes the lug, whereby further movement between the abuttingelements will disconnect them. The other appliances at the opposite endof the drawer before the actual separation of the first set may bedisconnected similarly by the operator using the tool 24 in the same wayas some relative play is possible between the parts of the arms beforethe arms are fully extended and disconnected. V

A drawer is thus strongly mounted for carrying relatively heavy loads,yet is easily extended or returned manually without sagging ordisconnection.

I claim:

The combination with a cabinet and a drawer, the drawer having atransverse hole in a side wall thereof, of slides composed of innermembers connected to the drawer and outer members similar to the innermembers and connected to the cabinet, the slide on the drawer having aninturned lug at the inner end and the slide on the cabinet having aninturned lug at its outer end, each slide having a hole therethroughspaced narrowly from the adjacent lug, a central member composed of apair of similar parts having their backs secured together and shaped toengage each of said inner and outer members, leaf springs secured at onend of each to the front and rear, opposite walls of the central memberrespectively with their free ends directed oppositely thereon relativeto each other and the leaf springs cooperating with the lugs to functionas stop means for normally preventing complete removal of the drawerfrom the cabinet, whereby when certain of the inner and outer membersare extended relative to each other to locate the hole in one memberopposite to the free end part of the underlying spring of the abuttingmember, a tool may be passed through the inner end of the hole in saidside wall and the hole in the abutting outer member to compress theadjacent spring to thus release its free end from the abutting lug,permitting separation of said central member from the adjacent sidemember and also from the drawer.

NICHOLAS SULENTIC.

